Facts about the Sauna

Ever thought of shedding pounds by just relaxing your body? Well, sauna steam is a good system of relaxing your body in the meantime losing the extra pounds. Sauna bath has been effectively practiced since centuries by our Romans and Scandinavians. There are plenty of more psychological, physical and economic advantages of using sauna. Asides from shedding weight, good regular sweating also provides help in de-toxing your body. If you get a chance to visit a sauna bath, you should not miss it.

Studies and research asserts that a 30 minute sauna bath can burn anywhere from 500 to 1000 calories. It is sensible in saying that during exercise calories are burned to supply heat and extra fuel required for the muscle contraction. And the mechanism is all internal. But during sauna we are supplying additional heat. So some research says that weight reduction by sauna is a fake perception since calories needn’t to be burnt to generate heat.

Temporary weight loss happens due to sauna due to sweating and loss of body fluid. So water loss in body might be a reason for loss of body weight immediately after sauna. When you rehydrate your body by taking on some fluids after sauna you’ll regain your weight. But sauna cleanses your body leading to loss of unhealthy tissue. This will lead on to some permanent weight reduction which amounts quite less.

Still, there are much healthier and constructive reasons for including sauna as a part of your weight loss program.

1. Sauna improves circulation in body. And because fat has low circulation regular sauna bath helps in the breakdown of fat deposits together with enlarging fat metabolism.
2. You are regularly hunger toward fast foods because of the toxicity filled in pancreas, livers, adrenals and other organs. The toxic environment is cleaned up by regular sauna steam.
3. There is an increase in assimilation of necessary and critical nutrient elements due to regular sauna bath. When your body soaks up all of the essential nutrient elements from the food you take you are less likely to get hungry and over eat.
4. Regular sauna bath also reduce your hunger for sweet items such as candy, cakes, tea, and fat rich foods. This is known to be as internal house cleaning mechanism.
5. Regular sauna bath increases body metabolism leading to burning of more calories.
6. Sauna helps as a stress reliever. This will make you more productive and pleasant to be around.


There’s a great conflict when it comes to using sauna for weight loss. Yes you can boost up your metabolism and ready your body for losing pounds but fast and grim weight loss can’t be achieved by sauna only. Make sauna your tiny part of fitness program rather than wholly counting on it for weight loss. It’s also said that kind of weight loss through rehydration isn’t safe, still it improvises your skin brightness and detoxifies your body. Saunas are effective health maintenance tools if used on a regular basis.

Think about relaxing and loosing weight. Fast weight loss can be as simple as just taking a steam bath and doing it in the way you like. Natural detoxification of the body, burning calories quick weight loss and increasing your fitness level. What do you need more? Sauna is one of the best way to lose weight fast.

Do you need a Multivitamin?

Many people take Multivitamins. They can also be very expensive. But do we need to take the one-a-day pill in order to fulfill a healthy lifestyle, especially with an increase in physical activity?

Claims: Athletes have increased needs for many micronutrients involved in the metabolic and physiologic pathways of exercise. Multivitamin supplements help meet these needs.


Facts: Regular exercise, especially long and intense exercise, may result in increased needs for certain vitamins and minerals, but supplementation isn't necessary for most athletes. Nonetheless, a deficiency in one or more of the micronutrients may result in impaired health and performance. The most common deficiencies are for the B-vitamins, antioxidants, vitamin D, calcium, iron, zinc, and magnesium. Athletes most at risk for deficiencies are those who restrict caloric intake to achieve or maintain a low body weight, those who don't eat a well-balanced diet, those who frequently eat fast foods, and those who eat too few fruits and vegetables. Most athletes serious about performance eat a diet sufficient in calories to meet increased energy needs, which usually results in a diet supplying adequate amounts of micronutrients, making supplementation unnecessary.


Bottom Line: More isn't better. Vitamin and mineral supplements won't improve performance in athletes consuming adequate diets. Athletes at risk of vitamin deficiencies may be able to improve performance by taking a multivitamin that contains about 100 percent of the daily value for most vitamins and minerals, which should be taken once daily or every other day with food.

Unusual Supplement Advice

Taking a look at some of the more unusual supplements that you may not have heard of which may help you towards your health goals. Up today - Choline.

Claims: Improves performance and focus and delays fatigue during long and intense exercise.

Facts: Choline plays a central role in various physiological pathways that are stressed by endurance exercise. Most important, choline is involved in forming acetylcholine, a chemical necessary for nerve cell communication. A deficiency in choline during exercise may result in impaired muscle performance because of a decrease in acetylcholine synthesis, as well as increased muscle damage and fatigue. Long, strenuous exercise bouts such as marathons or triathlons may create a significant, short-term decrease in free choline. It's estimated that an effort of longer than 2 hours at greater than 70 percent of VO2 max is necessary to produce such a change.

This is a difficult effort to reproduce and test in research studies, and to date only one study has been able to produce a notable decrease in choline during exercise in both treatment and control conditions. In this study, supplementation with choline one hour before and halfway through a hard 20-mile run prevented a decline in free choline, resulting in delayed fatigue and improved performance. Other studies have failed to find improved performances following choline supplementation before long and intense exercise. Raising the free choline concentration above normal blood levels doesn't appear to have a beneficial effect on endurance performance.

Bottom Line: Choline supplementation may be useful when taken before and during a long, intense exercise bout such as the marathon; it's not useful for shorter races such as 5K or 10K. Choline salts (such as choline citrate) are the best sources, but the recommended dose is quite high -- 2.5 grams before and 2.5 grams during the long, hard run, which could add up to five to 10 capsules at a time. Choline supplements are relatively safe, with the major side effects being related to the GI system, but 3.5 grams per day have been recommended as the tolerable upper intake level.